SAN FRANCISCO, 11:07 PM, SAT JUL 19 | 0 POSTS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS | tips@valleywag.com | RSS
Posts Tagged “

Arnold Rampersad

”
great moments in hr

White Google executive fibs to Congress about black employee count

It's no secret Google has painfully few black employees. Why lie about it? Laszlo Bock, Google's exceedingly Caucasian vice president of people operations, assured members of Congress last June that Google, which was lobbying for more H1-B visas for immigrant workers, had plenty of black employees. "We have a very strong internal Black Googler Network," he said. "We actually view it as our obligation to reach out to underrepresented communities in our industry, particularly women in engineering, particularly African-Americans. "How many [of Google's employees] are African-American?" asked Representative Maxine Waters. More »

11:20 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Owen Thomas
9,052 views, 50 comments

Latest by Drowner: I don't have any grandpas; they're dead. I used the above as an example to where the view of why it matters why there are many black people working for google. I appreciate the tenacity to prove just how different more »